Our weekly look at four topics — players, issues, numbers, trends — that are impacting and, in some cases, changing the game.
First Quarter: Kyrie and culture
Oh, Kyrie.
His talent is obvious.
Everything else is a blur, subject to interpretation.
Kyrie Irving spent two months on the sidelines, watching the Brooklyn Nets adjust without him to mixed results. Then when he returned in a predictable win against the Atlanta Hawks, he gave his observations of the team he had just re-joined.
“There’s more teaching to be done,” he said.